Here is a great essay by an American lieutenant on the media in Iraq and the truth about what is really going on.
He gets straight to the point and tells it like it is, with the media being the main problem with getting the truth out about what is happening in Iraq. Read the essay, take from it what you want, but just realize that it was written by someone who is doing the shooting and being shot at. By someone who does not have an agenda, except to point out the fallacies that lie within the major media outlets.